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50 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 23h \ on: John Muir Quote about Bitcoin bitcoin

I do see bitcoin and bitcoin related things in more places than I expected like in Dune recently.

Did you get into Bitcoin through NGU or some other interest?

I came to bitcoin through tech. I spent most of my paid career designing, writing, and maintaining a distributed database. When I left my job, I made myself pick between "blockchain" and AI. I started studying a lot of p2p tech and its history around the same time too. Bitcoin clicked with me super hard having been an ancap in my early 20's and given my professional experience. I also found myself having a lot in common with bitcoiners otherwise (primitive diets, loathing permission/bankers/debt).

Have you found new passions because of Bitcoin?

I've mostly lost other passions. I used to be very keen on biohacking-ish things, cooking, art, fitness, gardening, etc. Then again, maybe I lost those passions more because of the founder thing than because of bitcoin.

Also, what's everybody here think about John Muir?

I've always wanted to do at least a few days of Muir Trail. I'm not familiar with him or Teddy much otherwise.

100 sats \ 0 replies \ @jasonb OP 18h

I do see bitcoin and bitcoin related things in more places than I expected like in Dune recently.

I have been CRAWLING through The Dark Forest for about a year with interruptions from a bunch of other books. Just today (about the last 10 or 15% of the book), there was a part that just smacked of bitcoin. I’m hoping to write about it here tomorrow!

I've mostly lost other passions. I used to be very keen on biohacking-ish things, cooking, art, fitness, gardening, etc.

I’m a career musician and have kind of lost the passion because of Bitcoin. I was long past the age when people burn out too. It’s just the ultimate solution to so many macro problems that I thought were totally inexorable.